By Joel Peterson for | Inc.com | All decent leaders wrestle — at least a little — with the notion of wanting to be both respected and liked. It’s human nature. Great leaders, however, know that execution, getting the job done, and done well, is vastly more important than popularity. The often-cited example these days is Steve […]
PoA106 | Legal Perspective: Title IX and Roster Management
In this episode, Justin Sievert, partner at Sievert Werly, LLC discusses what institutions need to understand about implementing a roster management strategy as part of Title IX and gender equity compliance plan. Timeline Highlights 1:00 What is “roster management” as it relates to Title IX? 3:45 Challenges to implementing a roster management system 7:00 What about […]
How to Give Feedback People Can Actually Use
| Harvard Business Review | Over the last decade, I’ve conducted thousands of 360-degree feedback interviews with the colleagues of the leaders I coach. My goal with these sessions is to get a better sense of my clients’ strengths and weaknesses, but more often than not, the feedback isn’t particularly useful. How do you give […]
5 Ways To Get Unstuck And Fire Up Your Productivity
By Annabel Acton |www.forbes.com | We all get stuck sometimes, especially as entrepreneurs with heaving task lists. All too often, a problem or to-do item will crop up and suddenly we find ourselves in the procrastination twilight zone, spiraling in a sea of paralysis and unable to make progress. It happens. But it can be overcome. […]
Hiring Externally Can Severely Damage Your Company, According to a Wharton Study
By Ben Fanning | www.inc.com | Wharton research shows that external hires cost 18 to 20 percent more than those promoted from within. They also have significantly lower performance for the first two years. I was skipped over four times in my career for promotion, when the company hired from the outside. Each time I ended up leaving the company and so […]
Forget the Pecking Order at Work
Organizations are often run according to “the superchicken model,” where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what drives the most high-achieving teams. Business leader Margaret Heffernan observes that it is social cohesion — built every coffee break, every time one team member asks another for help — […]
How To Give Negative Performance Feedback, Part 1
By Caroline Ceniza-levine | www.forbes.com | Giving performance feedback can be tricky because ideally you want to turn the situation around but you don’t know how the person receiving the feedback will react. In this post, I’ll share suggestions for sharing negative performance feedback when you have a recipient who gets defensive. In a follow-up post, Part […]
PoA105 | Legal Perspective: Title IX and Adding or Eliminating Sports
In this episode, Justin Sievert, partner at Sievert Werly, LLC discusses what institutions need to understand about impacts on Title IX when discussing potentially adding or eliminating sport programs. Timeline Highlights 1:10 Basic Title IX Overview 4:15 Eliminating or adding programs for the overrepresented sex 8:00 Data needed to support Prong 3 (Justin’s article on […]